How bad do you spell?: The lexical quality of social media

AAAI Workshop - Technical Report

Volumn WS-11-03, Issue , 2011, Pages 2-5

  Baeza Yates, Ricardo ^a   Rello, Luz ^b  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH-QUALITY SITES; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKS; WEB 2.0;

INTERNET; USER INTERFACES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 80054953123     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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